History Trivia / TheSopranosWarner

* FakeScot: Eve Austin and Sally Messham, who play Kay and Manda in the film, are both English.

* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: Done with both adaptations to avoid association with ''Series/TheSopranos'', naturally.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Director Michael Caton-Jones originally [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-caton-jones-direct-catholic-choir-comedy-sopranos-1159464 optioned]] the film rights with his own money when the book was first published in 1998 and spent the next twenty years trying to get the project off the ground.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: No cast recording of the show exists. While the National Theatre has an archive recording of a complete performance, it hasn’t appeared on their official streaming service or been made available on DVD.

* FakeScot: Eve Austin and Sally Messham, who play Kay and Manda, are both English.

* FollowTheLeader: Takes some stylistic influence from ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', with the emphasis on dialect and the narrative splitting off into multiple threads once the girls reach Edinburgh.

* FollowTheLeader: Takes some stylistic influence from ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', with the emphasis on dialect and the narrative splitting of into multiple threads once the girls reach Edinburgh.

* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: Done with both adaptation to avoid association with ''Series/TheSopranos'', naturally.

* RenamedToAvoidAssociation: With ''Series/TheSopranos'', naturally.

* PeripheryDemographic: A couple of reviews of the film on Letterboxd suggest that people in the Pacific Northwest who might not otherwise have given the film a look-in have seen it in cinemas in order to hide out from the 2021 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave Western North American heat wave]] in an air-conditioned movie theatre for a few hours.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The book was set in the present-day mid-nineties when it was first published, and the adaptations have preserved this setting rather than trying to update it.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Director Michael Caton-Jones originally [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-caton-jones-direct-catholic-choir-comedy-sopranos-1159464 optioned]] the film rights with his own money when the book was first published in 1998 and spent the next twenty years trying to get the project off the ground.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Director Michael Caton-Jones originally [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-caton-jones-direct-catholic-choir-comedy-sopranos-1159464 optioned]] the film rights with his own money when the book was first published in 1998 and spent the next twenty years trying to get it made.